Essay about Ecofeminism

Patriarchy is a social system in which males holds power and predominate major political roles and leadership, authority and privilege. In the family, fathers and grandparents holds the power to control over women and children. Most patriarchal society is patrilineal that the authority is automatically passed down from father to son, and the cycle continues on without any female interference. Patriarchal society has predominated most societies in history.

Research Question. This article sought to explore the societal relationship between women’s natural attachment to nature (by way of their reproductive characteristics) and its effect on not only others perception of them, but also the individual’s self-perception. The main hypothesis proposed in this study is directional. Furthermore, it questions if when either gender is prompted by something that reminds them of a women’s connection to

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière’s Tartuffe satirizes the role of women in an irrational patriarchy. Tartuffe, a hypocrite who claims his evil intentions to be religious, finds his way into Orgon’s household and family which he intends to take away from him. Orgon is blind to Tartuffe’s actions and refuses to hear reason from his family until it is almost too late. Through this play, we see Elmire, who differentiates from other women around her.

The Lenses of Gender by Sandra Bem begins by introducing the three lenses that will be discussed in the book: androcentrism, gender polarization, and biological essentialism. The most significant aspect to this reading was the concept of females being an addition to males or the ‘other’. Specifically, this idea is derived from a biblical view. When taking a look at the creation of man and the story of Adam of Eve, “Adam is explicitly given the power to name--that is, define--every single creature on earth, including women… Adam is unambiguously said to be created in God’s image. Eve, in contrast, is an inferior departure from this godly standard,” (Bem, 1993, p. 46) This perception of females being below the male standard carries out throughout

Environmentalism is a very broad topic and she touches points in her article with a fierce passion which can include a multitude of examples such as: living things and its surroundings, man assaulting

Equality, the main ideology that feminists fight for. Since the beginning of humanity men and women, hunter and gatherers were equal in rights, power, and state. The whole emplacement happened when agriculture was introduced to the society. The agricultural revolution made migration unnecessary custom for humans because the food was provided. There was no need for mankind to immigrate and search for food. The men were working in the field, and the women were in the house taking care of the chores and the children. This power dynamic lingered in the systems. Consequently, patriarchy, which is a system that men have the optimum power, rose as a common dynamometer for all civilizations. Patriarchy drew the picture of women

“It is not enough simply to talk of domination of women as if women were a homogenous group” (Ruether 35). I employ this point, made by Ruether, to argue that Pandey must expand her perspective to include views of women that do not align with traditional gender roles, which Southern ecofeminists often focus on. Women are often placed into the role of “caretakers of children, the gardeners, weavers, cookers, cleaners, and waste managers for men in the family” which ultimately diminishes the importance of and “inferiorize[s] this work” (Ruether 34). Concepts such as “‘nature’ and ‘the natural,’” which are a large focus of ecofeminism, are used as the justification for the oppression which “particularly affect[s] women, people of color, non-heteronormative persons, the differently

The first couple chapters of Ecofeminist Philosophy goes over the basics of the theory of ecofeminism. One of the biggest ideas is that "Male centered thinking is the root cause of environmental destruction"22. The basic theory doesn’t just apply to women, but people of color, people in poor districts, and non-human nature. One example of this is how women are being related to lumber. How men take lumber over use it, and leaving nothing.

The ecofeminist counter-narrative of the Scientific Revolution was a change of shift in the ideology of treating nature with respect and care to an aggressive one and justifying it by merely calling it studying (Merchant, 2006, 518). As discussed in class, according to Carolyn Merchant nature was starting to be perceived as a wild woman who should be governed and taken in charge of; an indication that the experiments that were conducted after the Revolution were extracting the truth out of nature by means of torment rather than studying it respectfully. Francis Bacon portrayed the image of that to the torment on accused witches in the 15th century by James VI (Merchant, 2006, 522). Since nature was considered feminine it was not only the nature that suffered but also the women in the society as they were devalued by the use of metaphors such as “torture” and “vex” for nature in

Just as feminism is not a women’s rights issue only, as it extends a framework for creating an equal system for all people regardless of race, class and gender, ecofeminism is a movement that beckons to evolve from the historically patriarchal oppression of the environment and restore a balance of power, through extending rights and justice to the non-vocal environment. Through eco-feminism, climate justice and social justice can Some people have argued that the environment cannot argue a position as it without with vocal chords, therefore humans must take the vocal position and through social action, climate studies and civil law, speak for the voiceless. We wouldn’t be alive is it weren’t for female, likewise males carry half the

Ecofeminism, in the great part of it, has bridged the gap between the feminist theory and the animal-liberationist one, that once fought separately, with such exclusivity that only led to the expansion of oppression. However, dealing with the symptoms of the disease and trying to undermine their effects rather than dealing with the roots of the disease itself would not result in the total healing of it. That is why dealing with the conceptual roots of the connection between the oppression of women and the oppression of nature is a must.

Eco-Feminism is a conceptual idea in a direct response due to Androcentrism a concept that places man as the centric structure and leaves women and the environment under forms of oppression. Androcentrism originated in the 16th century when mass colonization and European exploration occurred in which not only exploited Atlantic cultures, but also environments spanning across the Atlantic. Furthermore, women and environment were placed below man and therefore were placed out of the centric structure and into the peripheral.

This critique reflects on Mohanty’s “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” and Moore’s “The Rise and Rise of Ecofeminism as a Development Fable: A Response to Melissa Leach’s ‘Earth Mothers and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell.” Both articles raise questions of essentialism as a necessary element in feminism itself, and of naivety, validity and value of essentialized feminist works. This firstly challenges the biological and social definition of ‘woman,’ the homogenization of ‘woman’, and further, the implication of the role of women in nature. The second challenge that arises in reviewing these articles is the question of audience: whom are these (eco)feminists targeting, and for what purpose? The challenges of (eco)feminism, essentialist feminism, and the application of feminism in gender, development and environmental studies are apparent in both of the articles I am reviewing.

Ecofeminism places importance on our connection as people of one earth and also recognizes how women have been, historically in the capitalist patriarchy, labeled as subordinate in relation to the dominating body. The environment falls into this subordinate category because it continues to be pressed and used to benefit the man machine. It may be hard for participants in the capitalist system to open their eyes and accept an ecofeminist stance when the realms of ecology and capitalism are held in opposition. "Ecofeminists do not support the idea that women's increased economic, political

Ainsi, après avoir montré l’impact du changement climatique sur les femmes, nous allons étudier trois cas de coopération internationale qui ont pour objectif de répondre aux problématiques des disparités entre les hommes et les femmes concernant les domaines d’agriculture et de sécurité alimentaire, de déforestation et enfin de migration.